Gallery: Apple's Proposed 'Spaceship' Campus Comes Alive in New Floor Plans
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Apple has grand plans for a secondary campus in Cupertino, California. The city [just released](http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=26&recordid=696) a treasure trove of floor plans, technical drawings, and renderings, so now we can see exactly what Apple has planned. Construction on Apple’s Campus 2 is expected to begin later this year (pending final approval from Cupertino’s City Council) with construction completing by 2015. The four-story, 300,000 square-foot circular structure, which according to the late Steve Jobs looks "a little like a spaceship landed," will eventually host 13,000 employees. Apple isn't ditching its corporate headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, though: The new campus will act as a separate, supplemental research facility to the company’s current campus. In May, Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer sent area residents [a brochure](http://9to5mac.com/2012/05/19/apple-cfo-peter-oppenheimer-sends-brochure-to-cupertino-neighbors-inviting-feedback-on-new-campus-2/) detailing what to expect from the proposed campus. Besides not replacing 1 Infinite Loop, the structure will be [LEED certified](http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1988), with a huge solar array on the main roof. Campus 2 won’t be open to the public, but it will feature a variety of amenities for its employees, like a fitness center and an auditorium for product events. For a closer look at Apple’s “spaceship” campus, click through the gallery above. *via [iDownloadBlog](http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/06/08/apple-campus-2-drawings-renderings/)*
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In this rendering of a portion of Apple's new campus, you can see the lush foliage that will surround the circular building, as well as what looks to be a four-story-tall restaurant or meeting area.
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Apple's Campus 2 has a huge footprint, with a diameter of [1,615 feet](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/16/apples_spaceship_campus_larger_than_pentagon_empire_state_building.html). That's bigger than the Pentagon, which is 1,566 feet wide.
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In a letter to area residents, Oppenheimer wrote: "By keeping the majority of existing trees along the perimeter – and planting additional perimeter trees and thousands of new ones throughout the interior – the building will fade into the landscape. What’s currently a sea of asphalt will be transformed into nearly 120 acres of green space." That abundant green space includes jogging trails.
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Campus 2 is a four-story structure. The basement houses a number of things, including a huge auditorium for holding media events and product unveilings.
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Four companies handled the architectural design for the campus: San Francisco-based Arup North America, London-based Fosters + Partners, Philadelphia-based OLIN Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and Santa Clara-based Kier & Wright.
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Plans for the building were originally submitted in August 2011, and employees should begin occupying it in 2015.
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When Steve Jobs spoke to the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, he said, "There is not a straight piece of glass in this building. It’s all curved. We’ve used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use."
